To prevent the reverse engineering of script applications, numerous developers encrypt their program code with instruments such as ionCube PHP Encoder in order to make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid apps in particular, since anyone could possibly use and modify the unprotected code without paying the required license fees. When you get web software encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder, you'll be able to use it without any problems as long as a software tool called ionCube Loader is present on the hosting server. This loader makes it possible to execute encoded files and you will often notice it on the list of prerequisites for a certain script app to be installed. Due to the fact that the encrypted files are already precompiled, they're normally executed a lot quicker and this will raise the overall speed of your site.

IonCube in Shared Hosting

IonCube Loader is present on all web servers that are part of our cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux shared hosting that you pick during the signup process, you'll be able to activate it from the Hepsia Control Panel. This process is as simple as right-clicking an On/Off button in the Advanced section, so even if this will be your first hosting account ever, you won't have to do anything complicated. The exact same section allows you to pick the PHP version for your account (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2), which means that if you want to switch to a different version, you just have to activate ionCube Loader for it as well. Because our platform is very flexible, you can set a different PHP version and a different status of ionCube by using a php.ini file in every domain folder. In case this is something you'd like to do but you do not have much experience, our 24/7 tech support team will help you in no time.

IonCube in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Since all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created on our advanced cluster platform and ionCube Loader is available on it, you shall be able to use any script application which requires this tool in order to run properly. With just a few clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel you can activate or deactivate ionCube for the PHP version which is currently active for the account. Because we support multiple versions of PHP simultaneously, you will need to do that every time you move to a different release, but when you revert back to a release that you have already used, our system will remember your preference and ionCube Loader will already be activated. When you have several sites inside the same account and they require different versions of PHP, you're able to set up a php.ini file in each and every domain folder and with several lines of code you'll be able to define both the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube no matter what is selected for the website hosting account altogether.